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Gilles Kepel


Born
in France
June 30, 1955

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A French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world. He has written works on Radical Islam including Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. He was the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for 2009-10 at LSE IDEAS (Centre for Diplomacy & Strategy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Professor Kepel has previously been a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. He speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian.

Kepel's work has stirred intense debates in the French academia. His analyses of political Islam have notably been criticized by Olivier Roy, François Burgat and Alain Roussillon. These 3 authors however are also quite controversial, with secularists like Caroline Fourest or Mo
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“Le terme fitna dans le registre sémantique de l'arabe, ou l'usage coranique -aussi riche que complexe- des mots demeure le référent principiel, fonctionne comme le principe inverse du jihad. La fitna (de genre féminin) exprime une violence mal maîtrisée et excessive qui déchire de l'intérieur l'Oumma (la "communauté des fidèles musulmans"), et la met ainsi en péril d'une fragmentation dont profitent les kouffar (mécréants) pour s'employer à la détruire. Il n'est pas sans pertinence de remarquer que jihad est un principe "rationnel" masculin -utilisé généralement comme prénom d'homme-, tandis que fitna connote le registre irrationnel, pulsionnel, un prénom de femme en dérivant... Le Coran, dans la sourate "La vache" précise que "la fitna est pire que le meurtre", du fait du péril mortel qu'elle fait planer sur la communauté qui s'y adonnerait.”
Gilles Kepel, Prophète en son pays

“On Friday, November 13, 2015, a group of killers connected with the Islamic State in Iraq spilled blood in Paris. This massacre came hardly ten months after the tragedies that took place on January 7–9 at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes. In response, the hashtag #jesuisParis (I am Paris) proliferated over social media, just as #jesuisCharlie (I am Charlie) had done at the beginning of the same year, and an immense movement of solidarity arose around the world.”
Gilles Kepel, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West

“The explicit objective of these multiple attacks in the West is to provoke reprisals targeting Muslims living in Europe and the United States. Such reprisals would, in the jihadists’ imagination, cause Muslims to view themselves as victims of “Islamophobia” and would rally all Muslims together under the jihadists’ banner, triggering religious war that would ultimately lead to the destruction of the West and the worldwide triumph of jihad. Such is the jihadists’ dream, but they are far from realizing it, owing to the calm resolve of European societies, which have avoided conflating the Muslim population as a whole with jihadists trying to take that community hostage.”
Gilles Kepel, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West



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